Growing up in a shelter: Child homelessness on the rise
Advocates are raising the alarm as more than 20 percent of Toronto’s homeless population is made up of children — nearly doubled in number from just four years ago. There are currently thousands of children living in shelters across Toronto, and nearly 70 percent of them are younger than ten. The Star’s Affordable Housing Reporter Victoria Gibson spent time with some families in the system to understand the realities of child and family homelessness at a time when the city battles a pandemic.
